Jim Roach

Managing Director and Founder of ARV Solutions

Jim established ARV Solutions in 2003 with a plan to provide high levels of service more often seen in high end “Search and Selection ” rather than contingency recruitment, though still at sensible fee levels, in line with realistic expectations of clients – i.e. to ADD REAL VALUE!

After spending my early years in a variety of businesses covering retail, manufacturing, insurance and sales, in 1989 I started in construction recruitment at the peak of the late 80s boom, and quickly experienced recession times too – which I’m certain has been invaluable experience to gain early on!

Since then I have held senior management roles within a national construction recruitment agency, taking the South West and Wales region from small beginnings to building a top performing team – quite a few of whom went on to run their own agency, or hold senior posts in other recruitment businesses. From there I went to managing a multi-disciplinary recruitment business that taught me far broader recruitment sectors, including manufacturing and engineering. Having taken them through Investors in People and developed the team further, I realised my destiny lay in running a business of my own, where I could implement a new philosophy I felt was overdue in recruitment.

I established ARV Solutions in 2003 with a plan to provide high levels of service more often seen in high end “Search and Selection” rather than contingency recruitment, though still at sensible fee levels, in line with realistic expectations of clients – i.e. to ADD REAL VALUE! I set out to recruit in the more challenging niche engineering and construction markets, and early on, having been introduced to a timber frame manufacturer, discovered the world of offsite construction and not looked back.

In my spare time I watch my kids playing rugby now, rather than stomping around myself, and am a bit of a barbecue obsessive.

These are exciting times at ARV Solutions with ever increasing demand, and businerss levels growing year on year. We have a strong and growing team, who have recently attained Investors in People Gold Accreditation, and plan to continue to grow the business, servicing the offsite sector and broadening into related sectors.